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2022 THE SOLUTION FOR THE WINTER WORLD CUP

ANDY MOSELEY tells Sepp Blatter how to solve his problem over switching the Qatar tournament away from summer

Faced with having to make a decision on whether or not to move the 2022 World Cup to the winter, FIFA responded in the way governments normally do when presented with insoluble problems. They set up a taskforce. Cue a few high level appointments, several months of meetings, and a lengthy written report that will no doubt reveal, shock horror, that it’s dangerous for players to be playing in 50 degree plus temperatures, but that a winter World Cup would disrupt domestic leag...

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